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Li S, Yang J, Mohamed H, Wang X, Pang S, Wu C, López-García S, Song Y. Identification and Functional Characterization of Adenosine Deaminase in Mucor circinelloides: A Novel Potential Regulator of Nitrogen Utilization and Lipid Biosynthesis. J Fungi (Basel) 2022; 8:jof8080774. [PMID: 35893142 PMCID: PMC9332508 DOI: 10.3390/jof8080774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 07/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is an enzyme distributed in a wide variety of organisms that cleaves adenosine into inosine. Since inosine plays an important role in nitrogen metabolism, ADA may have a critical function in the regulation of fatty acid synthesis. However, the role of ADA in oleaginous fungi has not been reported so far. Therefore, in this study, we identified one ada gene encoding ADA (with ID scaffold0027.9) in the high lipid-producing fungus, Mucor circinelloides WJ11, and investigated its role in cell growth, lipid production, and nitrogen metabolism by overexpressing and knockout of this gene. The results showed that knockout of the ada altered the efficiency of nitrogen consumption, which led to a 20% increment in the lipid content (25% of cell dry weight) of the engineered strain, while overexpression of the ada showed no significant differences compared with the control strain at the final growth stage; however, interestingly, it increased lipid accumulation at the early growth stage. Additionally, transcriptional analysis was conducted by RT-qPCR and our findings indicated that the deletion of ada activated the committed steps of lipid biosynthesis involved in acetyl-CoA carboxylase (acc1 gene), cytosolic malic acid enzyme (cme1 gene), and fatty acid synthases (fas1 gene), while it suppressed the expression of AMP-activated protein kinase (ampk α1 and ampk β genes), which plays a role in lipolysis, whereas the ada-overexpressed strain displayed reverse trends. Conclusively, this work unraveled a novel role of ADA in governing lipid biosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism in the oleaginous fungus, M. circinelloides.
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- Shaoqi Li
- Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids, School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; (S.L.); (H.M.); (X.W.); (S.P.); (C.W.)
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- Department of Food Sciences, College of Food Science and Engineering, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang 524048, China;
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- Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids, School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; (S.L.); (H.M.); (X.W.); (S.P.); (C.W.)
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71524, Egypt
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- Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids, School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; (S.L.); (H.M.); (X.W.); (S.P.); (C.W.)
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- Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids, School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; (S.L.); (H.M.); (X.W.); (S.P.); (C.W.)
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- Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids, School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; (S.L.); (H.M.); (X.W.); (S.P.); (C.W.)
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology (Associated Unit to IQFR-CSIC), Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, 3100 Murcia, Spain;
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- Colin Ratledge Center for Microbial Lipids, School of Agricultural Engineering and Food Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China; (S.L.); (H.M.); (X.W.); (S.P.); (C.W.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-13964463099
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La Motta C, Sartini S, Mugnaini L, Salerno S, Simorini F, Taliani S, Marini AM, Da Settimo F, Lavecchia A, Novellino E, Antonioli L, Fornai M, Blandizzi C, Del Tacca M. Exploiting the Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-4-one Ring System as a Useful Template To Obtain Potent Adenosine Deaminase Inhibitors. J Med Chem 2009; 52:1681-92. [DOI: 10.1021/jm801427r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Concettina La Motta
- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno, 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Chimica Farmaceutica e Tossicologica, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via D. Montesano, 49, 80131 Napoli, Italy, and Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche di Farmacologia Clinica e Terapia Sperimentale, Via Roma 55, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Rosemberg DB, Rico EP, Guidoti MR, Dias RD, Souza DO, Bonan CD, Bogo MR. Adenosine deaminase-related genes: molecular identification, tissue expression pattern and truncated alternative splice isoform in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). Life Sci 2007; 81:1526-34. [PMID: 17950365 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2007.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2007] [Revised: 09/10/2007] [Accepted: 09/20/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is responsible for cleaving the neuromodulator adenosine to inosine. Two members of ADA subfamilies, known as ADA1 and ADA2, were described and evidence demonstrated another similar protein group named ADAL (adenosine deaminase "like"). Although the identification of ADA members seems to be consistent, the expression profile of ADA1, ADA2 and ADAL genes in zebrafish has not yet been reported. The aim of the present study was to map the expression pattern of ADA-related genes in various tissues of adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). An extensive search on zebrafish genome followed by a phylogenetic analysis confirmed the presence of distinct ADA-related genes (ADA1, ADAL and two orthologous genes of ADA2). Specific primers for each ADA member were designed, optimized semi-quantitative RT-PCR experiments were conducted and the relative amount of transcripts was determined. The tissue samples (brain, gills, heart, liver, skeletal muscle and kidney) were collected and the expression of ADA1, ADAL and ADA2 genes was characterized. ADA1 had a similar expression pattern, whereas ADAL was less expressed in the heart. The highest relative amount of ADA2-1 transcripts was observed in the brain, liver and gills and it was less expressed in the heart. RT-PCR assays revealed that the other ADA2 form (ADA2-2) was expressed ubiquitously and at comparable levels in zebrafish tissues. The strategy adopted also allowed the identification of an ADA2-1 truncated alternative splice isoform (ADA2-1/T), which was expressed at different intensities. These findings demonstrated the existence of different ADA-related genes, their distinct expression pattern and a truncated ADA2-1 isoform, which suggest a high degree of complexity in zebrafish adenosinergic system.
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- Denis Broock Rosemberg
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600-Anexo, 90035-003, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Beraudi A, Traversa U, Villani L, Sekino Y, Nagy JI, Poli A. Distribution and expression of A1 adenosine receptors, adenosine deaminase and adenosine deaminase-binding protein (CD26) in goldfish brain. Neurochem Int 2003; 42:455-64. [PMID: 12547644 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-0186(02)00157-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The expression patterns of adenosine A(1) receptors (A(1)Rs), adenosine deaminase (ADA) and ADA binding protein (CD26) were studied in goldfish brain using mammalian monoclonal antibody against A(1)R and polyclonal antibodies against ADA and CD26. Western blot analysis revealed the presence of a band of 35 kDa for A(1)R in membrane preparations and a band of 43 kDa for ADA in both cytosol and membranes. Immunohistochemistry on goldfish brain slices showed that A(1) receptors were present in several neuronal cell bodies diffused in the telencephalon, cerebellum, optic tectum. In the rhombencephalon, large and medium sized neurons of the raphe nucleus showed a strong immunopositivity. A(1)R immunoreactivity was also present in the glial cells of the rhombencephalon and optic tectum. An analogous distribution was observed for ADA immunoreactivity. Tests for the presence of CD26 gave positive labelling in several populations of neurons in the rhombencephalon as well as in the radial glia of optic tectum, where immunostaining for ADA and A(1)R was observed. In goldfish astrocyte cultures the immunohistochemical staining of A(1)R, ADA and CD26, performed on the same cell population, displayed a complete overlapping distribution of the three antibodies. The parallel immunopositivity, at least in some discrete neuronal areas, for A(1)Rs, ADA and CD26 led us to hypothesize that a co-localization among A(1)R, ecto-ADA and CD26 also exists in the neurons of goldfish since it has been established to exist in the neurons of mammals. Moreover, we have demonstrated for the first time, that A(1)R, ecto-ADA and CD26 co-localization is present on the astroglial component of the goldfish brain. This raises the possibility that a similar situation is also shown in the glia of the mammalian brain.
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- A Beraudi
- Department of Evolutionistic and Experimental Biology, University of Bologna, Via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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